using both feet when you drive

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Your driving test? Mine was LAME. I swear I made one lap around a city block and that was it. Four right turns. The instructor didn't even ask me to put it back in a parking spot. In my opinion it should be no less than a two hour 'adventure' in driving. Students should be required to make every kind of driving manuver possible. Including merging onto the interstate! Even if they claim they'll never drive there.
 
Yeah its my driving test.

What! I don't want the test hard!.....right now its like 30 mins around a small town area......thats the way I like it thankyou!......I already have to do loads of maneuvers and have to do roundabouts.......somthing that america doesnt have! lucky lot! But I have mastered it now.....I jsut wana get the test out of the way!
 
Im still on my learners permit, and i dont have a problem at all. I use left foot for braking, it is just a little faster for me, but in the car i learn in which is manual i use my right foot for accelerating and braking, same is with auto vehicles.
 
sUn
I prefer to use both feet. Do you have to use one foot when driving a car in reality?
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Not for the accelerator and brake I don't, the left foot is for the clutch. When i'm using the wheel I do left foot braking, my feet are too big and the pedals are shaped wierdly compared to my cars pedals so I tend to find it dificult to just use my right foot. Wierdly enough I used to be able to drive fine in GT2 with an old madcatz wheel just using my left foot and that was before I even drove a car, maybe it was just the pedals were better designed, or my feet were smaller.
 
LoudMusic
You all need to learn how to drive a manual transmission car.
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My mom and dad always tell me that. "It's always better to know how to drive a stick just in case that's what your given." I'm like "uh huh..."
 
WhiteSW20
heck.. rally drivers use both feet all the time one on brake and one on gas. nth wrong with that :)

many race car drivers do it actually
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Well, when at over 120MPH, or going through dangerous roads, you're gonna need to be ready to brake.
 
McLaren F1GTR
Well, when at over 120MPH, or going through dangerous roads, you're gonna need to be ready to brake.
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I'm a right foot braker myself, even at high speeds I like to wait after coming off the power to let the car go into a neutral balance before applying the brake. It doesn't matter so much on 4 wheels, but its a habit I've had from my bike days. You would never go from full throttle to full brake without letting the suspension level out ;)

In GT it probably costs me a few tenths here and there, but I'm sticking with it :)
 
ewitspaul
hmm, i was just playing gt4p with logitech driving force pro and noticed that i was using my both feet, one to brake and one to accel, i know this is bad habit but i am so used to this its hard for me to use 1 foot now. who else have this problem?
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left foot braking isn't bad technique, in fact it is very proper race technique. If you learn it you'll be much faster than using only one foot.
 
yes...yes...left foot braking is a race technique
no one ask you to use it on the street.
and race driver dont care about wear and tear of their brake or engine, since their race engine will tune up after every race and their parts will change whenever they need
 
McLaren F1GTR
What?
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I think he means that left foot braking is faster in racing (which it is a lot of the time, in terms of lag between brake and throttle application and using the brake to actively balance the car), whilst using more fuel because some of the power being supplied by the engine is being counteracted by the brakes.
 
Dont left foot brake when you do your license test Brocky, the examiner will fail you.
Eagle may be able to answer this question. Is it still illegal in NSW to brake using the left foot? It was when I last read a Motor Traffic Handbook in about 1982.
 
Well I can't remember it being mentioned when I was preparing for my test early this year, but I was taking it in a manual so it wasn't something I'd have paid a great deal of attention too, I'm pretty sure it is still illegal. That's why you get a few professional driving lessons before you go for the test, they bring you up to speed on all the details like that. Granted that could be quite a fundamental change to your driving style so you should probably look into it, pays to be safe.
 
I have no problem switching from my real life car (VW Golf TDi), using my right foot for both gas and brake, and both feet in games. In fact, i have tried to brake with my left foot in my car (of couse, no passengers :) ), and i can't get the point to it, too soft or too hard, but i can't modulate the braking pressure as i do with my right one.

I think that street cars aren't just prepared for this techniques or for heel and toe :scared: with their default pedals.
 
Uncle Harry
Dont left foot brake when you do your license test Brocky, the examiner will fail you.
Eagle may be able to answer this question. Is it still illegal in NSW to brake using the left foot? It was when I last read a Motor Traffic Handbook in about 1982.
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What i meant to say is i brake with my left foot when playing GT with my wheel, in a car i use my right foot. The reason they dont want you using your left foot for brakes and right foot for accelerating is there could be a little bit of an overlap rather than off one and on the other. You dont wanna be going down a hill, go to brake and find your right foot is still accelerating a little, plus it takes more concentration to work both feet.

In a manual, it is damn easy to drive, i found it much more relaxing than Auto, coz i feel more in control of the vehicle at all times. I cant wait for GT to have a H pattern shifter, and a clutch.

In race cars, some use their left only for clutch, but some use their left foot for braking aswell, Greg Murphy springs to mind here, i could be wrong though. While racing, if your race cars clutch and brake pedals are close together, it is much easier to use your left foot for both clutch and brake. While slowing down in a manual vehicle you will have your foot on the clutch part of the time you are braking, well if using your left foot in a race car for both you have a foot free to get on the gas quicker.
 
avenger
Left foot braking is actually a very good technique to master. On the track or road or rally, is very effective in most situations, but you have to be practiced at it. Another technique you can use in conjunction with it is heel-toeing.
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I'd like to see you heel-toe AND left foot brake together. :crazy:
 
It's weird, i can drive stick all day long, braking and accelerating with my right foot, the second i get into my car, an automatic, i use my left foot for braking, and my right for acceleration, just the way I learned to drive, my dad does it too, just the way i'm used to i guess
 

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